[BioRuby] GNU Guix
Pjotr Prins
pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl
Mon Aug 31 07:13:10 UTC 2015
Ruby support is improving. Dave is doing a lot because he wants to
support his company's RoR stack:
http://dthompson.us/ruby-on-guix.html
Pj.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 01:08:46PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have written about GNU Guix before and now it is time for an update.
> With the release of 0.8.1 it is becoming rather good.
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965257
>
> Interestingly
>
> * LLVM support has gone in (and Guix being Guix you can have multiple versions)
> * People are adding bioinformatics packages to Guix
> * Great Python, R, Julia and Ruby support
> * There are almost 100 python modules in there now(!)
>
> The last is interesting. My take is that because Python's packaging
> is such a mess they are now leapfrogging the competition (i.e. us
> Ruby folks) with Guix ;)
>
> I have been using GNU Guix daily over a year now and I love it. E.g.
>
> ruby -v
> ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13 revision 48405) [x86_64-linux]
>
> gem env
>
> RubyGems Environment:
> - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.2.2
> - RUBY VERSION: 2.1.5 (2014-11-13 patchlevel 273) [x86_64-linux]
> - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/2.1.0
> - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /gnu/store/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/bin/ruby
> - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/2.1.0/bin
> - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/specs
> - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
> - ruby
> - x86_64-linux
> - GEM PATHS:
> - /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/2.1.0
> - GEM CONFIGURATION:
> - :update_sources => true
> - :verbose => true
> - :backtrace => false
> - :bulk_threshold => 1000
> - REMOTE SOURCES:
> - https://rubygems.org/
> - SHELL PATH:
> - /home/pjotr/.gem/z1v7183grkhz33xnzr6bb1qwg2qn2s79-ruby-2.1.5/2.1.0/bin/
> - /home/pjotr/.guix-profile/bin
> - /usr/bin
> - /bin
> - /usr/sbin
> - /sbin
> - /usr/local/bin
>
> Just saying. Total separation of Ruby and gems. No more RVM mess or mixing with
> Debian/Ubuntu installs.
>
> If anyone is interested in *sane* software deployment with Ruby
> and/or bioinformatics, I invite you to send us (or me) an E-mail. I'll
> set up a mailing list for the purpose.
>
> Pj.
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